Dont buy products from Cirty City's liquidation sales...

[xXHotelCrazyXx]

Stories are pouring in from outraged shoppers who thought they could get a great deal on equipment from Circuit City as part of its fire sale liquidation. The problem: Circuit City won't let you open sealed boxes to inspect merchandise before you take it home -- and all sales are final. No returns. No exchanges. That's not so great if the gear is hopelessly broken.

One Minnesota family spent $1,500 on a 50-inch plasma TV and found the glass shattered once they got it home. The store refused to take back the TV and instead referred the issue to Circuit City headquarters, where no one answered the phone. The family is checking with Panasonic, the manufacturer, to see if it's covered under warranty.

A similar problem happened to a Boston customer, who paid $1,100 for what turned out to be a totally busted Samsung TV. She got a refund from her credit card company, but only after a local TV station made inquiries on her behalf. Be warned: Consumerist says that getting credit card companies to help you out may be difficult in cases like this where a bankruptcy is involved. (As I understand the specifics of the Circuit City case, normally your credit card company will just "charge back" the merchant in question, but in this case the merchant is going out of business and has federal bankruptcy protection during the process.)

It's not just big ticket items that can be dead on arrival. Consider this $7.50 "bargain" video game purchased from a Circuit City store, which appears to have been chewed up by a robot.

No doubt there are still some good deals to be found in these liquidating stores, but remember that, now more than ever, "buyer beware" is the rule of the day.

[BKZJAYY718]

my girlfriend just bought a nice little canon digital camera. but it was brand new!

[O HELLA OEM]

when are they closing down for sure?
i might just browse around 1 this sunday

[Texan1]

Originally Posted by BKZJAYY718

my girlfriend just bought a nice little canon digital camera. but it was brand new!

I'm sure the examples of those busted tvs were "brand new" I guess as the text stated, they were not able to open the boxes and didn't find out until they went home.

I just went with best buy for the largest flat panel tv they sell with the fully articulating wall mount, bose s. sound, component furniture, blu ray and geek squad install and not for one second did I consider going to Circuit shiity. Ok, I considered c. shiity for 1 second, but I never went there.....thank God.

[sammy_G]

anyone know how much ps3's are down to now?

[phatbuddha]

LOL...they've already been picked clean. I went through there yesterday to see if I could score on some Dynamat and wiring...nope. All I saw was the dregs of society trying to score good deals where none was to be found.

Even when they started their going out of business sale, I went through and their "slashed" prices were still higher than what you could find online.

[WannabeBlac5]

2$$$

[KurtayKurt]

my discount is still cheaper than products at CC

[jersey-G]

Originally Posted by xXHotelCrazyXx

Stories are pouring in from outraged shoppers who thought they could get a great deal on equipment from Circuit City as part of its fire sale liquidation. The problem: Circuit City won't let you open sealed boxes to inspect merchandise before you take it home -- and all sales are final. No returns. No exchanges. That's not so great if the gear is hopelessly broken.

You aren't dealing with Circuit City, you are dealing with the liquidation company. Circuit City doesn't have control of the merchandise anymore.

[xXHotelCrazyXx]

Originally Posted by jersey-G

You aren't dealing with Circuit City, you are dealing with the liquidation company. Circuit City doesn't have control of the merchandise anymore.

Didnt you work for CC?

[jersey-G]

Originally Posted by xXHotelCrazyXx

Didnt you work for CC?

Nope, but I think there were 2 posters who did.

[Red_G35]

I had one of the employees tell me not to buy anything. That the prices were lower before the liquidation began.
I also had a friend who bought a portable DVD player but they gave him the wrong AC adapter and they wouldn't let him return it even though they ****ed up.

[Echo6Romeo]

I believe they close the doors March 8th.

[G35 Mass]

2 things

1) I had a HUGE battle with CompUSA when they were going out of business. I approached an associate, showed him my hard drive, said "I need a new one". He handed me a box, said "here, same capacity, all set". Get home: I had an IDE drive, he gave me an SATA drive. I returned to the store and spoke to everyone up the food chain and they all refused to exchange it. I repeatedly told them that they gave me bad advice and it's their fault, they said,"No, all sales final". I went outside, called the local PD who arrived and threatened to arrest the manager and the sales associate for "Larceny by False Pretenses" if they did not complete the exchange or refund me. I got the correct hard drive.

2) I Purchased an external 500GB drive from CC today. Drove to Best Buy and realized that the 40% off that they had their HDDs selling at was 40% off their inflated price, and only about 5% less than Best Buy.

Moral of the story: screw CC and screw liquidators.

[xXHotelCrazyXx]

Originally Posted by Red_G35

I had one of the employees tell me not to buy anything. That the prices were lower before the liquidation began.
I also had a friend who bought a portable DVD player but they gave him the wrong AC adapter and they wouldn't let him return it even though they ****ed up.

Damn thats fvcked up!